Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

GOAL: Eliminate early elective deliveries This case study is part of the Illinois Hospital Associ...

The daily operational safety exercise was an initiative spearheaded by the patient safety departm...

The health care system has been working to reduce acute care readmissions for the targeted popula...

The hospital implemented a new admissions nurse position in March 2014 to address the quality and...

Their project was an effort to reduce DVT/PE incidence. This case study is part of the Illinois ...

Central line-associated blood stream infections cause serious patient harm, leading to thousands ...

During FY2014, the surgical site infections rate at this academic medical center increased to 21....

GOAL: Eliminate early elective deliveries

The daily operational safety exercise was an initiative spearheaded by the patient safety departm...

The health care system has been working to reduce acute care readmissions for the targeted popula...

The hospital implemented a new admissions nurse position in March 2014 to address the quality and...

Their project was an effort to reduce DVT/PE incidence. This case study is part of the Illinois H...

The project catalyst noted inconsistencies in providing diagnosis-related, evidence-based interve...

Perineal trauma during childbirth can lead to significant short- or long-term complications such ...

Antibiotic stewardship was implemented in 2011 and focuses on five "D's": Drug, De-escalation of ...

Antimicrobial Stewardship Programs direct judicious antimicrobial use to optimize patient outcome...

Maternal cardiac arrest is rare but often fatal. Obstetricians and perinatal nurses are often fir...

The goal was to reduce the delay in patient care by reducing patient wait times, both from reques...

Parental satisfaction with pediatric emergency department visits has been argued to be best predi...

The medical center consistently missed internal quality targets, with a mean HAPU rate for 2007-2...

The hospital started working on Project Re-engineered Discharge (Project RED) in 2011. A patient ...

Reduction in the use of fluoroquinolones is an important intervention for antimicrobial stewardsh...

This project was designed to improve the total health care for patients of a community mental hea...

Human resources and the nursing leadership team worked together using a PDCA for rapid cycle impr...

St. John's implemented a web-based business intelligence platform that integrates physician quali...

A multidisciplinary committee found that despite an overall sepsis mortality rate similar to expe...

The hospital used evidence-based tools and interventions to decrease hospital readmissions by tak...

Variation and delays in the early mobilization of patients in the ICU can result in an increased ...

This facility's coronary artery stents per admission rate was consistently higher than the nation...

The project began with a focus on CHF readmissions. As the multidisciplinary team saw decreases i...

A Safe Patient Handling program (SPH) was initiated in 2006. A SPH vendor was chosen based upon e...

The hospital carried out a multidisciplinary team-based approach to improving the safety and appr...

Excellent patient-centered care is the goal of a program implemented by the team at McDonough Dis...

Saint Anthony Health Center, Alton, Ill., took a hard look at data from its cancer program and fo...

Many Medicare patients with life-limiting illnesses had no documented advanced directive while in...

A gap analysis was conducted. Key themes emerged in this analysis such as inadequate preparation ...

Using FOCUS-PDCA, the hospital identified an opportunity to decrease the 30 day readmission rate ...

The medical center experienced a 115 percent increase in behavioral health (BH) patients presenti...

The traditional behavioral health access model of calling for an appointment which is subsequentl...

In December 2009, the medical center embarked on a little known and practiced procedure in the Un...

In 2009, the leadership team of this hospital empowered its multidisciplinary critical care commi...

The driving principle behind the outpatient service excellence journey is excellent customer serv...

The heart failure quality improvement team set out to improve scores on heart failure core measur...

A team was created to ensure that all patients regardless of race, ethnicity, language, disabilit...

Infants born to mothers electively at a gestational age of 37-39 weeks are more likely to develop...

As part of Franciscan St. James Health's commitment to improve the surgery processes, the hospita...

The Kishwaukee Community Hospital nurses and physicians recognized the opportunity to improve car...

At Franciscan St. James Health, the nursery had the highest rate of "zero" orders (orders not on ...

Obstructive sleep apnea is an often unrecognized contributing cause for respiratory failure in ho...

Using Plan-Do-Study-Act, this initiative prioritized utilization of spirometry as the standard di...

Shortcomings in the treatment for patients with severe sepsis and septic shock were observed. An ...

The aim of this project was to reduce the number of Venous Thromboembolisms acquired during hospi...